why is mastodon converting gifs to mp4s lossily
honestly the fact that mastodon has to convert to mp4 to pause gifs is uh😐
@boots is that why it's done?
@boots P sure it's also done because gif is a horrible format. Iirc Garg actually did webm but that won't work on any Safari browser 😑
@noiob @boots gif -> other formats has problems with variable speed gifs as far as I know. Pretty sure something would go wrong with my avatar if it was stuck through ffmpeg.
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honestly the fact that mastodon has to convert to mp4 to pause gifs is uh
😐